A place to look into the forests of the world, the heart, and the mind.

Month: May 2016

This morning, I heard a loud thump in my boss’s office, closely followed by, “S***!” Denice came to my office and said, “Peter, a big crow just hit my office window and it’s stuck in the shrubbery. Will you help me get it out?” I got up and we went outside. She was dazed, beak … More Such an elegant bird, the crow

[Note: This is an update on a post I did several weeks ago.] I’ve just read this thought- and fright-inducing piece by Robert Kagan in The Washington Post titled “This is how fascism comest to America.” Kagan aims squarely at Trump’s own political philosophical incoherence. The unifying theme within Trump’s philosophy is Trump. How does … More Never let there be an American Ernst Janning

The presidential candidates show us who they are by what kinds of things they stake policy positions on, the number of positions they take, and the detail and rhetoric in those positions. Sanders has position pages on 34 issues. Clinton has 31. Trump has 7. Each of them address immigration reform, veterans, health care (Medicare … More A very practical post on Presidential candidates

The antics in Nevada by some Sanders supporters irk me. Reading this piece by Edwin Lyngar in Salon, I’m flummoxed. Because the people who are throwing epithets and threatening party officials are doing it about a person. About someone around whom they seem to have made a cult of personality. And not a coherent political … More Do not welcome the sovereign

Grant Township’s people are in a hell of a fight against the fossil fuel hydra. The 700-person Western Pennsylvania community is resisting Pennsylvania General Energy Company’s (PGE) creation of a deep injection well that would pump millions of gallons of toxic fracking wastewater under its neighborhoods. All of the houses are on wells. If the … More Let’s revere the people stopping the desecration of Grant Township

“It will be a lot longer until the wounds from the Sandusky child-abuse scandal can finally close. But Penn State is now trying to move toward that healing.” ~Brian Barnett, ESPN I walked onto Penn State’s Old Main lawn. A pall was draped over the people walking under the elms, the beech, and the willow … More Justice. Healing. Caring. #JoePaKnew